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Blue and green shell-slug form with ridged texture and a soft glowing outline. This symbol represents the Embodiment Diagram as structure, sensation, regulation, and inner movement held inside the body.
Circular afro-like form paired with flowing water lines in magenta, green, and violet tones. This symbol represents the Afroscape Field Guide as embodied Black knowledge, Afro theory, hair and body systems, texture, atmosphere, and living archives of the self.
Bright orange cephalopod with curling tentacles and glowing blue edges floating against black space. This symbol represents Litm(us) and Black Beauty School as transformation through chemistry, fluid identity, Black beauty knowledge, body experimentation, texture, color theory, and the constant reshaping of self through creative practice and embodiment.
Three flowing wave lines beside a radiant starburst symbol in purple and blue gradients. This symbol represents Six Waters Cannabis Field Notes as ingestion, altered sensing, embodiment, atmospheric expansion, and cannabis moving through the waters of the body.
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Green and red jellyfish with long trailing tendrils and a glowing outline. This symbol represents the Wata(ring) W(hole) through flow, depth, unseen systems, drift, sting, and water memory.
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Deep maroon and chocolate stingray with a long tail and glowing gold texture. This symbol represents BlaxkCurry Productions through grounded movement, quiet power, deep knowledge, and gliding creative force
Neon pixel-style text reading “LITM(US) and Black Beauty School” layered over a glowing green afro silhouette on a black starry riso-textured background. The composition combines cosmic grain, cyber-riso textures, and arcade-inspired typography to introduce a decolonial Black beauty education and embodiment archive.
Glowing neon green afro silhouette and head outline rendered in an x-ray inspired style with textured curls, soft internal glow, and digital riso grain. The shape floats against a black cosmic background, appearing both anatomical and atmospheric like a radiant energy field or ancestral signal map.

Litm(us) and Black Beauty School

Neon green cybernetic arm and partial torso rendered with exposed circuitry, glowing contour lines, and translucent mechanical anatomy. The floating body fragment appears suspended between prosthetic technology, spiritual anatomy, and Afro-futurist embodiment design.
Large biomechanical heart-like structure with engraved circuitry patterns, layered machine textures, and worn archaeological detailing. The object resembles an ancestral organ transformed into speculative Black technological infrastructure.
Glowing red sculptural head rendered with exposed cybernetic circuitry, embedded mechanical components, and textured metallic detailing. The profile combines human anatomy and machine architecture against a black cosmic background, appearing like a ritual-tech embodiment relic.

u r the tech(know)logy

Neon yellow and pink text explaining the relationship between LITM(US), Black Beauty School, and the Wata(Ring) W(Hole) displayed on a black starry riso-textured background. The section frames both portals as interconnected waters within the Bespokecurry cosmos, where Afro hair, embodiment, memory, spirit, and ancestral technique converge through glowing cosmic typography and speculative Black visual language.

How Litm(us) & Black Beauty School live within the Wata(ring) W(hole)

Litm(us) and Black Beauty School are two portals on the planet of the Wata(ring) W(hole) within the Bespokecurry cosmos. Both live inside Afro Hair Tings—the field where hair, body, memory, and spirit meet. ◉≋They are different waters. ◉≋They move with the same source. ◉≋One is communal spiritual inquiry. ◉≋One is applied ancestral technique and accountability in practice. ◉≋ Both are Water Tech(know)logy.

Circular Black Beauty School emblem featuring layered text surrounding a central afro silhouette icon. The logo appears embedded within the glowing afro pick design as a ritual-tech seal representing Black beauty education, embodiment, and ancestral practice.
l Black Beauty School Logo — Orange Afro Portrait Variant Alt text: Orange-toned circular Black Beauty School logo featuring an illustrated afro portrait surrounded by bold circular typography. The emblem glows against the dark glitch background like a portal marker or ceremonial institutional seal.
Large original Black Beauty School emblem displayed on a dusty pink riso-textured background beneath glowing pixel-style “Black Beauty School” text. The circular seal features an afro portrait surrounded by repeating Black Beauty School typography, combining beauty institution aesthetics, ancestral Black visual language, and retro-futurist design energy within the Bespokecurry cosmos.

Black Beauty School

Neon orange portrait with calm facial expression framed by a large circular radial structure resembling braided loops or ceremonial crown architecture. The glowing figure appears suspended against a dark cosmic background with soft riso grain and cyber-organic detailing.
Central glowing portrait with pale gold skin tones and sharp radiating spike-like halo structures extending outward like a ceremonial sun crown. Red facial markings and glowing earrings create a ritual-tech atmosphere blending spirituality, embodiment, and speculative Black futurism.
Neon pink and cyan portrait framed by a circular spoke-like halo structure resembling a wheel or radiant crown. The face glows softly within the geometric framing against a black glitch background, combining cosmic portraiture and Afro-futurist visual language.

Black Beauty School

A portal of Earth, Water, Reverse OsMo(cis), and The Hole

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Black Beauty School is the applied practice of Water Tech(know)logy in salon spaces across the diaspora.

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It teaches afro hair as ancestral technology—

not trend, not texture, not “type,”

but relationship.

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This work lives in:

 Rooting technique in Black salon spaces across the diaspora.

Who we build with matters. Who we allow to touch our bodies matters.

Earth/ Sand/

Clay (community)

Water (memory/ body/record)

Afro hair carries record.

Techniques must honor the body’s memory, not override it for aesthetics.
 

Unlearning colonial beauty standards.

Shedding the binary of “professional vs natural,” “neat vs political,”

“manageable vs worthy.”
 

Reverse Osmo(cis)

Naming the harm created by anti-Blackness and extraction in the beauty industry.

This school exists because the industry fails the least of us—

and failure is not neutral.
 

The Hole

Illustrated Afroscape field-notes graphic from the Afro Hair ABCs series featuring a glowing purple body silhouette surrounded by concentric portal rings, clouds, cowrie shells, wave paths, and floating signal markers across a saturated red-orange background. Handwritten notes explain how afro hair and scalp behavior reflect nervous system regulation, tension, embodiment, and return to self. Text throughout the composition frames Litm(us) as a portal connected to Afro Hair Tings, Black Beauty School, water, waves, shell memory, clouds, and body awareness within the Wat(a)ring Whole cosmology.

A PORTAL

LITM(US)

A portal of Water, S(hell), Waves, (Flo)at, and the Cloud

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Litm(us) is the spiritual container within Afro Hair Tings  and Black Beauty School. 

Glowing biomechanical lower body fragment shaped like a cybernetic leg and foot rendered in pink, red, and metallic textures with embedded circuitry, armor-like plating, and ritual machine detailing against a black background.
Pale coral and pink cybernetic upper body fragment featuring a mechanical shoulder, arm, and hand etched with circuitry patterns, geometric nodes, and embedded technological markings resembling ancestral body augmentation or sacred machine anatomy.

Litm(us) is a community conversation and embodied inquiry into afro hair as sacred tech(know)logy. It lives in:

Interactive Wataring Whole cosmology section on a black starry riso background featuring six surreal portal symbols connected to Litm(us), Afro Hair Tings, and Black Beauty School. Neon atmospheric illustrations represent water, shells, waves, float, cloud memory, and Litm(us) embodiment through layered textures, cosmic imagery, ancestral symbolism, and dreamlike afro-surreal compositions.

water

Water (Memory / Body / Record):

Afro hair holds memory of climate, lineage, chemistry, emotion, and environment.

Hair is water in form.
 

Neon water portal illustration featuring a glowing cloud raining large blue droplets into a flooded splash pool, symbolizing memory, body, and ancestral record.

s(hells)

S(hell) (Identity / Mind / Imagination):

How we imagine our hair shapes how we imagine ourselves.

What shells have we been taught to live inside?
 

Surreal shell portal composition made from layered glowing shells and marine textures in neon greens, pinks, corals, and blues symbolizing identity, imagination, and memory.

waves

Waves / Rain / Atmosphere (Carriers of Information):

Hair is a receiver and transmitter of information—

social, spiritual, political, and ancestral.
 

Stylized neon ocean wave illustration in electric pink, turquoise, and purple tones representing atmosphere, motion, and information carried through water.
Interactive Wataring Whole cosmology section on a black starry riso background featuring six surreal portal symbols connected to Litm(us), Afro Hair Tings, and Black Beauty School. Neon atmospheric illustrations represent water, shells, waves, float, cloud memory, and Litm(us) embodiment through layered textures, cosmic imagery, ancestral symbolism, and dreamlike afro-surreal compositions.

Litm(us) asks: What if you don’t know your hair yet?

Can you sit in not knowing long enough to listen for your own flow

instead of borrowing someone else’s?

Afro-surreal floating figure reclining across layered stone forms and a glowing surfboard-like platform in cosmic space, symbolizing surrender, drift, and embodied flow.

(flo)at

The Cloud (Stolen Record of Memory):

What was taken from our relationship to afro hair?

What knowledge lives in the body that was never archived?

Litm(us) is retrieval practice.
 

Dreamlike cloud formation composed of layered translucent clouds, roots, landscapes, and atmospheric textures floating in cosmic darkness, representing stolen memory, archive, and ancestral retrieval.

the cloud

You are the Tech(know)logy

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Core teaching of Litm(us):

Afro hair defies gravity.

It is the only hair that grows toward the sky.

It becomes a litmus test for the internal and external worlds—

revealing what we believe about Blackness, care, beauty, labor, worth, and the sacred.

Litm(us) is a tool of Black embodiment.

Not a class you finish—

a conversation you return to.

Afro Hair ABCs inspired Litm(us) field notes graphic featuring cosmic afro hair diagrams, clouds, shells, body signals, water symbolism, and handwritten annotations exploring how hair reveals what the body is holding.

litm(us)

How Litm(us) and BBS connect directly to the Wata(ring) W(hole)

The Wata(ring) W(hole) is the planet where all Water Tech(know)logy gathers.

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Litm(us) and Black Beauty School Live are two waters within that whole.

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  • Litm(us) moves like Waves / Rain / Cloud — spiritual inquiry, memory retrieval, embodied listening.
     

  • Black Beauty School Live moves like Earth / Water / Reverse OsMo(cis) — applied practice, technique, unlearning harm, rebuilding care.
     

One changes the inner relationship.

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One changes the outer practice.

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Neither is complete without the other.

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Together they work toward ancestral alignment

with self, community, body, earth, and memory.

The 4 Waves

Neon Litm(us) cosmology section on a black and green glitch background featuring large layered ocean waves in electric pink, aqua, green, and purple tones beneath the title “The Four Waves of Litm(us).” The section introduces interconnected Water Tech(know)logy systems within the Wata(ring) W(hole) using surreal ocean imagery and glowing retro-futurist typography.

The Four Waves of Litm(us)

each wave maps to the Water Tech(know)logy of the Wata(ring) W(hole)

Wave I — S(hell) to Ear
 

Listening to the Record (Water + S(hell))

We begin by hearing and holding our journeys.
 

Afro hair stories are shared as living records—

how memory, land, body, water, and cosmology shape the scalp.

This wave asks: What have we forgotten about ourselves?
 

And what returns when we listen without spectacle?

Surreal neon collage of an oversized human ear layered with shells, spirals, and organic textures floating above dark ocean water against a starry black background, symbolizing listening, memory retrieval, ancestral hearing, and embodied record keeping.

Wave II — The Tea / Rest from the Record
 

Inner Listening (Wooden C(u)p + Water)

“The tea is that there is no tea.”
 

We pause from performance and external validation.
 

Through breath, movement, meditation, writing, and gentle touch,

we practice turning inward—

not to gossip about others’ lives,

but to form our own cosmology of care.
 

This wave asks:

Where does your body hold others’ influence?
 

What needs to be released?

How do we re-pair the holes we’ve learned to live inside?

Neon collage of a braided figure drinking from a cup while seated within layered glowing water, shells, and clouds against a starry black background, symbolizing inner listening, rest, ritual pause, embodiment, and spiritual care practices within Litm(us).
Neon surreal collage of a reclining figure floating on a glowing blue surfboard-like form surrounded by soft rock shapes against a starry black background, symbolizing rest, flow, repair, discernment, sacred pacing, and emotional restoration through water and movement.

Wave III — (Flo)at
 
Flow, Discernment, Repair (Waves + Reverse OsMo(cis))
 
We explore afro hair as litm(us):
a living indicator of internal health and external atmosphere.
 
We unlearn colonial speed and extraction,
and practice sacred pace—flow that restores memory.
 
This wave asks:
How do the shells we create block connection and care?
 
How can our natural wattage sustain one another without depletion?
 
How do we rebuild trust and create community rhythms outside capitalism and coloniality?
 
We unlearn Colonial Wild Fire—speed with no end—and practice Indigenous Wildfire—sacred pace that clears without destroying. This is Reverse OsMo(cis): shedding urgency, restoring memory, and letting water move again.

Wave IV — Bapt(ism) / Landing Ashore
 

Practice in Community (Bapt(ism) + The Watering W(hole))
 

We move toward action through Wata(rings)—

small community circles for consistent, non-commodified care.
 

Where three or more gather (non-religiously),

we practice platonic, restorative rituals of scalp and afro hair care.
 

This is reparations to ourselves.

A return to embodied sanctity without extraction.
 

We ask:

What rituals can we create from ancestral memory and sustain in everyday life?

How do we meet community needs without monetizing care?

Neon surreal collage of a figure partially submerged in layered glowing water beneath coral-like formations and earth structures against a starry black background, symbolizing collective ritual, landing ashore, community care, embodied healing, and restoration through shared practice.
Surreal neon salon scene showing one figure tending to another person’s afro hair while looping glowing wata rings move around their bodies, symbolizing relational care, embodied practice, energetic exchange, and community-rooted Afro hair ritual.
Neon spray bottle glowing beside salon tools against a dark background, symbolizing moisture, refreshment, water memory, and embodied Afro hair care practices.
Large neon green wide-tooth comb against a dark background, symbolizing gentle detangling, softness, accessibility, and non-extractive Afro hair care practices.
Neon hooded salon dryer glowing in orange and pink tones against a dark background, symbolizing restoration, pause, warmth, processing, and communal hair care ritual.

Litm(us) — Live (Community Practice Version)
 
Embodied, relational, and hands-on
The live version of Litm(us) brings the work into the body.

This is not a lecture—it’s practice in motion.
Together, we use community tools to restore relationship to afro hair:

  • Line dancing and collective movement

  • Altar building grounded in Afro hair cosmology

  • Community commitments to care for afro hair

  • Hands-on workshops that remove the salon as the middleman

Shared rituals of scalp and hair care rooted in consent, tenderness, and skill.

This version exists to return care to the people—

to practice Water Tech(know)logy in real time,

in real bodies, in real community.

Surreal footer section on a black starry riso-textured background featuring glowing neon shell and sea-creature navigation symbols that function as portals connecting visitors back into the Bespokecurry cosmos, Afroscape field guide systems, and Afro Hair Tings writing archive.
Bright orange shell-like sea creature glowing against a starry black background, used as a navigation portal linking to the Afro Hair Tings essay “The Crown Act Is a Performance.”
Glowing purple and green whale-like cosmic sea creature floating across a starry black background, used as a navigation portal returning visitors to the larger Bespokecurry cosmos and Wata(ring) W(hole).
duo of green spikey seashells
Neon green spiral shell icon glowing against a starry black background, used as a navigation portal linking to the Afroscape: A Field Guide section and cosmology archive.
Small overhead afro hair rendering in deep red and green glitch tones with etched line pathways moving across the scalp, resembling energetic mapping, salon circuitry, or ritual hair sectioning diagrams.
Purple and blue afro scalp rendering with glowing linework crossing the hair form, evoking afro hair as coded technology, signal transmission, and embodied salon knowledge.
Overhead thermal-style rendering of a Black scalp with thick afro hair divided into clean sectioned grids using salon clips. The image resembles braid mapping, scalp cartography, and ancestral salon technique rendered in glowing pink and red tones against a dark background.

A two-day learning portal rooted in Black salon spaces,

with a panel of afro hair models speaking honestly and uncomfortably about why the industry continues to fail Black bodies—

and how we practice differently.

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What it restores:

Technique with care.

Skill with accountability.

Practice with ancestral alignment.

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